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February 2016

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	01 Lauren Goodlad (UIUC), "Genre and the Longue Durée" Lauren Goodlad: "Genre and the Longue Duree"	02 English Majors' Association General Meeting Dystopian Visions and New Technologies - a conversation with Cory Doctorow and Misha Glenny, moderated by Kavita Philip "Creativity, Innovation, and Legal Reform in Africa"	03 MFA Poetry Series: Visiting Poet Thomas Lux "Reporting the Global Poor: Practical and Ethical Challenges" with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Katherine Boo Creativity, Innovation and Legal Reform in Africa	04 Slavery at the Crossroads of Medical Knowledge and Science Richard Grusin, "Inside/Outside: Critical Theory as an Institution" Richard Grusin, "Datamediation, Citizenfour, and the Affectivity of Surveillance"	05 Data Science and Digital Humanities symposium Waste of a White Skin - book talk & signing with Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard "The World of the Tazkirah: Sources for Study of the Premodern Persianate Lands" The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction eleventh biennial meeting One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment	06
07	08 Richard Godden, "Jayne Anne Phillips, Monetized War, Militarized Money: A Narrative Poetics for the Financial Turn" Lunar New Year Festival 2016	09 A very special invitation to the Getty	10 Graduate colloquium Book Seminar -- a discussion with the editors of Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone & special guests - Rising Scholars Book Seminar Series Rising Scholars Book Seminar Series "Comics and the Art of Visual Communication" - a conversation with Scott McCloud Speaker, Sekou Abdullah Odinga	11 Talk by Alicia Christensen, University of Nebraska Press "Persepolis and Ancient Iran: my adventures in writing books!" a talk and book Signing by Dr. Ali Mousavi	12 English Majors' Association Faculty/Student Poetry Event, All Welcome	13 "The Unhidden Sound" - Saba Ensemble on concert in Orange County
14	15	16 "Diversity with Racism: Los Angeles History from Above and Below" "Looking Like the Enemy: Islamophobia and the Forgotten Lessons of Japanese American Interment"	17 "Surviving Sexual Torture: Women, State Terrorism, and Reparations in Chile, 1973-2015" Surviving Sexual Torture: Women, State Terrorism, and Reparations in Chile, 1973-2015, Guest Lecture by Dr. Hillary Hiner "Environmental Racism: Deconstructing the Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan" Reporting Research: How scientists should talk to journalists and how journalists should write about science	18 Peter Coviello, University of Illinois Chicago, "The Wild Not Less Than the Good: Thoreau, Sex, Biopower" Poetics\|history\|Theory event: Peter Coviello, University of Illinois, Chicago "Democracy, Race and Political Inequality: Lessons from Ancient Athens"	19 Early Cultures' winter lunch lecture \| "Epistemologies of Rebellion"	20 MFA Reading Series - Vroman's Bookstore
21	22 Freeman Dyson: Living Through Four Scientific Revolutions	23 Semnani Foundation Lecture Series in Memory of Dr. Richard Frye - "On the Margins of Greater Iran: Richard Frye and the History of the Tajiks" by Dr. Richard Foltz Presentations from the Asian American community	24 MFA Poetry Series: Visiting Poet Harryette Mullen Composer Hilda Paredes lecture and master class Semnani Foundation Lecture Series in Memory of Dr. Richard Frye - "The Pre-Islamic Religion of the Kurds: Problems and Questions" a Lecture by Dr. Richard Foltz Book Seminar -- a discussion with Professor Kristin Peterson and guests - Rising Scholars Book Seminar Series French Film Series	25 Shakespeare and Lincoln, with Michael Anderegg and Richard Brestoff "How to Kill a Dragon in Ancient Iran" a lecture by Manya Saadi-nejad Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self EXPERT SERIES: Cuba and the U.S.: Making Up is Hard to Do Lincoln and Shakespeare	26	27 "The Unhidden Sound" Saba Ensemble on concert in Los Angeles
28	29 "Mediterranean Modernity Three Ways: The Napoleonic Era, Regional History, and World History" "Not Contraband But Soldier: The Fugitive Justice of Harriet Jacob's Loopholes of Abolition"